Re: Can't send mail again.

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Jordan Katz <katz@underlevel.net> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> Jordan Katz <katz@underlevel.net> writes:
>>
>>>> You seem to have found the XEmacs smtpmail.el, it wont work under
>>>> Emacs.  Try the one at:
>>>>
>>>> Hopefully it won't require updating any other elisp files too, but I
>>>> can't promise anything.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately the same thing happens again.. it prompts me for a
>>> password, and when entered, "Mechanism nil is not implemented."
>>
>> Argh, sorry, I hadn't committed the patch, as the person who reported
>> it said if it solved the problem, or I forgot about installing it.
>> Anyway, could you perhaps apply this and check if it works and let me
>> know?  Then I could really install it (or not).
> [snip patch]
>
> I saved the above as smtpmail.el.patch then:
>
> # patch smtpmail.el smtpmail.el.patch
> patching file smtpmail.el
>
> reloaded emacs, gnus and the same problem occurs: "Mechanism nil not
> implemented."  What could this be?

Did you recompile the file?  Either remove smtpmail.elc, or do M-x
byte-compile-file RET on the file.  The first is probably better
though, as it makes backtraces contain more information in case you
get more problems and report the backtrace.